Sea Shepherd M/Y Steve Irwin Tour

I decided to go see the Steve Irwin in Brisbane; this was a unique opportunity as it is currently sealed off to the public for refitting and repairs. So because of the repairs/refitting, the footage on here is of the Steve Irwin is at its worse, its normally tidy... Unfortunately I had to cut a lot of footage as it had crews faces, plans, etc that cant be shown publicly on the net. I hope you understand, I tried my best to place together a video, but its hard to fully show/explain it unless you go visit yourself.

For me the tour/discussions on the ship has totally changed my view on things. One very interesting topic we talked about was the arrest warrants we came to the conclusion that Japan knows they don't need to make the arrest warrants internationally recognised all they need is to keep them going by keep funding the arrests warrants to 'scare' future crew away. He called it a "S.L.A.P", instead of trying to cut the head (P.Watson) off the organisation; they are cutting it off by the feet. It doesn't even matter if its Japanese law enforced because under the 'law of the sea' it still has to be the captain, so not even in Japan would it be court holding... as long as Japan keeps funding and refreshing those arrest warrants it can have a massive effect on future volunteers of SSCS.

Another interesting topic was the changes that Japan is making on their new terrorism laws, which basically says if you interfere with a "Japanese commercial program" its classified as terrorism. But one thing is wrong with that, Japan says their whaling is not a commercial program but a research classified program, if they do charge SSCS with terrorism they are basically saying their whaling is a commercial hunt and proves Japan to be in a international violation. Lots of quotes behind that but I am just going off the top of my head for now. Anyway we had lots of these types of discussions.

As for the ship itself, it is incredible! It was a bit messy because at this present moment its cut off from public for repairs, so my footage is of the Steve Irwin is at its worse. Anyway it's incredible; I was sitting in the captain's seat just looking out the front bridge window and just remembered footage of Paul standing there with an image of a pirate whaling ship outside. Of course my real view was Brisbane City, but it is amazing placing footage to the real thing. One place which was 'scary' (I think that's the word for it) was where Paul Watson was shot. All these places was just so interesting, these links of footage and the Steve Irwin has dramatically expanded my understanding. I recommend everyone reading this to go see the Steve Irwin themselves, it is life changing.

Special thanks to the SSCS crew for allowing WAW to have this privilege of having a tour and being able to film it.

http://seashepherd.org/

http://www.seashepherdforum.org/

http://worldagainstwhaling.webs.com/

TOGETHER WE CAN STOP WHALING

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[trinkking2]

why cant they get the Robert Hunter back?

[fred100446]

@trinkking2 Hey mate, this is the Robert Hunter, its the same boat. It was renamed the Steve Irwin few years back in memory of him as he was meant to be crew on the Robert Hunter but unfortunately died a matter of months before.

[trinkking2]

oops i mint Farley Mowat got mixed up with all these vessels names i feel stupid now

[fred100446]

@trinkking2 ahhh ok, nah its easy to get mixed up. The farley was stuffed, the Canadian coast guard ripped the poor thing apart, they hacked into the engine claiming they were looking for footage.... and suprosily sprayed the inside with salt water. It was sold illegal just a few weeks back for $5000. Sort of ironic tho, Canada officials tried destroying it thinking SSCS will pay for its return yet they just caused more financial lost to themselves. In short it would of cost SS more to retire it

[brandonha]

I find it stupid to change the name to Steve Irwin. The Robert Hunter was a better name, because Hunter was directly involved in shepherd activities.

[fred100446]

Steve Irwin was Sea Shepherd Crew, he was going to go out in operation Migaloo, except he died tragically in QLD before he got the chance. Terry Irwin and Paul then decided to name the ship out of respect for him and his continuing fight against whaling (and all the other campaigns Sea Shepherd do).

The Australian Zoo also funded part of the campaign and Terry Irwin continues to wear a Sea Shepherd shirt in public interviews.

So yea, the Irwins and their Zoo are directly involved in SSCS.

[Ryio5]

@trinkking2 your thinking of the Farley Mowat arent you?

[winxvstrix]

you got damm luck to go on the ship of my dreams 1 day sooner or later i will do that to i hate the maru they make me soo angry about killing those nice animals

GO SEASHEPHERD LET THE MARU KNOW WHO IS THE BEST

[trinkking2]

i didb't hear about them ripping it apart wow thats messed up i heard SSCS is coasting them money for every year they don't have it that makes me mad plus it was not in there waters i hope Canada pays for what they did i'm glad to hear there boat catch fire and sink makes me happy

[KatrinaNiemi]

Same

[hiyaks]

really? that actually makes me sad that steve irwin could be involved in a violent activity like that. i'm all about conservation, but when people get violent about it it doesn't make sense to me.